Austen Wednesdays

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Airing 6th October, 8pm (BST)  Subscribe to ensure you don’t miss out! 

For our next edition, Jane Austen’s House Director Lizzie Dunford spoke to Sam Causer, a conservation architect, about the architectural history of Jane Austen’s House.

Studio Sam Causer, an architecture practice based in Margate, have been working on various phases of repair and research into Jane Austen’s House since 2019.

In this conversation, Sam outlines the work the studio have done on the architectural history of Jane Austen’s House – exploring how the house may have developed as it changed from a medieval farmhouse to a coaching inn, a family home, labourers’ tenements and finally to the museum we know today.

Using clues from the house itself, such as walls, floorboards and fireplaces, Sam reveals how the house may have looked whilst the Austens lived there.

This episode will premiere on our YouTube channel on 6th October, 8pm (BST) 

ABOUT SAM CAUSER

Sam is Director of Studio Sam Causer, an architecture practice based in Margate, Kent. He specialises in understanding and adapting complex, sensitive and historic buildings and environments. His work combines interests in material science, changing social behaviour and conservation philosophy, believing that architecture both records and moulds everyday human interaction and wider political systems.

Sam is a RIBA-accredited Conservation Architect, and studied architecture at Cambridge University under Dalibor Vesely and Peter Carl, who promoted the roles of hermeneutics and phenomenology in architectural practice. Studio Sam Causer is recognised by the Architecture Foundation as one of the best emerging practices in the UK.

Read on to catch up on the series so far!

Catch up on the series so far

Director Lizzie Dunford and Collections and Interpretation Manager Sophie Reynolds speak to art historian Emma Rutherford. 

Collections and Interpretation Manager Sophie Reynolds speaks to Professor Paula Byrne.

Director Lizzie Dunford speaks to food historian, author and journalist Julienne Gehrer.

Collections and Interpretation Manager Sophie Reynolds speaks to dress historian, curator and archaeologist Hilary Davidson.

In our first Austen Wednesdays event, Director Lizzie Dunford spoke to author Rachel Cohen.  Watch it again here.